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News Donkey Kong Junior Arcade Has A New World Record Holder

1,349,000 points is the new high score

The classic arcade title Donkey Kong Junior has a new world champion after the previous record was beaten by 20,900 points Mike Kasper of Beaverton, Oregon is the man who achieved such a feat. During a live TV broadcast Kasper managed to score 1,349,000 points on an original arcade cabinet, topping the...

• Sun 28th Apr 2013
• Retro
• Arcade

News Billy Mitchell Was Never the Donkey Kong Jr. Record Holder

Score was beaten before he started

Last month, Billy Mitchell beat Hank Chien's Donkey Kong score to reclaim his place at the top of the game's scoring girders. On the same day, he also felt like setting a new high score on Donkey Kong Jr., something we reported on last month. Now it transpires the latter record is not really a record at all,...

• Fri 10th Sep 2010
• Retro
• Donkey Kong
• Arcade

News Billy Mitchell Back on Top of Donkey Kong

And Donkey Kong Jr for fun, too

You may remember a recent article about former Donkey Kong world champion Steve Wiebe's induction into the International Video Game Hall of Fame, which took place yesterday. The event will likely be remembered for another reason though – the return of Billy Mitchell as the Donkey Kong world record holder. Setting a...

• Sun 8th Aug 2010
• Retro
• Donkey Kong
• Arcade

News Steve Wiebe Crowned King of Kong Once Again

Although it's Donkey Kong Jr. this time

Celebrity gamer and star of the excellent King of Kong Steve Wiebe has reclaimed the world record for Nintendo's Donkey Kong Jr. coin-op after briefly relinquishing the title to Mark Kiel, who had set the previous high score at a whopping 1,147,800. Wiebe - who became famous after his battle with gaming legend...

• Thu 18th Feb 2010
• Retro
• Steve Wiebe
• High Scores
• Awesome

News The King of Kong Strikes Again

Steve Wiebe bags the Donkey Kong Jr. World Record

As we noted a while back, Steve Wiebe (star of the hit movie King of Kong) is busy preparing to make another attempt on the Donkey Kong world record at this year's E3. As part of his training he's set a new high score record for Donkey Kong Jr. - 1,139,800 points, to be exact. Here's the full story,...

• Mon 27th Apr 2009
• High Scores
• Steve Wiebe
• Retro